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[ianrm]

Techie the new Victor Meldrew Yes the money could have helped with other things but then so could all the money we spend on fighting in other countries and funding other countries. Would our country notice any improvements if we had not have held them, I doubt it. Ok it is not every ones thing and in the past I have not really watched it but as it is here I might as well enjoy it.

[Wolfstone]

Wow, a whole extra dimension of sh!t. Hopefully, this will also be 3D's swansong and that can fcuk off back into the dustbin for another 20 years.

It its any consolation I have always said and still maintain I think 3d is a fad.

Which is presumably why you bought a top of the range Samsung 46" 3D TV recently then Bob.

[ChrisS1]

Sounds like a good excuse to get sloshed tonight

Blame it on the Olympics!

4 beers in as a pre opening ceremony warm up....it's all about the preparation

[Goosenka]

Two bottles of wine down.....coverage getting better as well as my sarcasm

[Goosenka]

So I just heard the opening ceremony cost £27m. What did that go on? A fluffy cloud on stalks being paraded around?? Or a B&Q shed with fake smoke? Answers on a postcard....

[ChrisS1]

Two bottles of wine down.....coverage getting better as well as my sarcasm

Good work! I like to see the commitment you are showing

[techieboy]

I don't even care about the £10 billion or whatever it cost. It's not like that money would make a blind bit of difference to anything anyway. It's just the fuss about the whole thing and the wall to wall coverage that means life has to come to a halt for it, like it or not. There's not a single sport in there that I could give a sh!t about. I hope Team GB do well and at least justify how much has been ploughed into them and their sports but, will I feel better in two weeks time if the UK has it's biggest ever haul of medals? No. The whole thing is over commercialised rubbish now. I've just had overload of Olympic torch relays, the BBC (and the press) trying to continually make security sound like a disaster waiting to happen, Mitt Romney agreeing with them, the usual talking heads being rolled out (even Huw Edwards FFS) to talk me through every minutiae, sponsor logo's and adverts being rammed down my throat at every opportunity, absolute bollocks that gets spouted about the opening ceremony and it's meaning and the entire media trying to tell me I'm excited by the whole thing. I'm not. Good. The missus tells me it's raining now.

[Goosenka]

Two bottles of wine down.....coverage getting better as well as my sarcasm

Good work! I like to see the commitment you are showing

5 bottle challenge. My brother in law can drink like GBOB

[CocoPops]

Haha you're practicing for gbobs arrival then?

[Goosenka]

I don't even care about the £10 billion or whatever it cost. It's not like that money would make a blind bit of difference to anything anyway. It's just the fuss about the whole thing and the wall to wall coverage that means life has to come to a halt for it, like it or not. There's not a single sport in there that I could give a sh!t about. I hope Team GB do well and at least justify how much has been ploughed into them and their sports but, will I feel better in two weeks time if the UK has it's biggest ever haul of medals? No. The whole thing is over commercialised rubbish now.

I've just had overload of Olympic torch relays, the BBC (and the press) trying to continually make security sound like a disaster waiting to happen, Mitt Romney agreeing with them, the usual talking heads being rolled out (even Huw Edwards FFS) to talk me through every minutiae, sponsor logo's and adverts being rammed down my throat at every opportunity, absolute bollocks that gets spouted about the opening ceremony and it's meaning and the entire media trying to tell me I'm excited by the whole thing. I'm not.

Good. The missus tells me it's raining now.

Can confirm as man on the ground it was raining in East London but not now. Damn humid though. Techie I am with you 1000% nice to know you are there. My sister and family are going tomorrow to the village for the kids to see it really. All my brother in law has done is read his 5 yo's ninja Lego book I bought

Edited by Goosenka, 27 July 2012 - 07:37 PM.

[Silent Steve]

I now like the games. Trains fairly empty on the way home. <ps - Goose just texted me; he's finding Sue Barker a bit saucy. Think he's drunk>

[Goosenka]

I now like the games. Trains fairly empty on the way home.

<ps - Goose just texted me; he's finding Sue Barker a bit saucy. Think he's drunk>

Give over big man. Although drunk I would smash her to have a drive in her fezza

I thought she was a muncher of the rug persuasion ?

[CocoPops]

Goose is more of a horsey Claire balding kinda man.

[Darcini]

I thought she was a muncher of the rug persuasion ?

Nah, didn't Cliff Richard used to boff her?

Oh, wait a minute............

[Goosenka]

Goose is more of a horsey Claire balding kinda man.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[turbobob]

Wow, a whole extra dimension of sh!t. Hopefully, this will also be 3D's swansong and that can fcuk off back into the dustbin for another 20 years.

It its any consolation I have always said and still maintain I think 3d is a fad.

Which is presumably why you bought a top of the range Samsung 46" 3D TV recently then Bob.

Show me a decent TV that isn't 3d

[turbobob]

fcuk me its the £10 billion tele-tubbies show

[ghand]

Two bottles of wine down.....coverage getting better as well as my sarcasm

I started on the Grouse early(after a few beers in the pub) so it should get better for me also

Who will be pissed out of shape first from the VX fold

Edited by ghand, 27 July 2012 - 08:05 PM.

[turbobob]

It its any consolation I have always said and still maintain I think 3d is a fad. Super HD will replace it in a few years.

Totally agree, SuperHD/4K is definitely worthwhile. Long way to go until they can find a way to actually deliver 4K content though.

3D is just a technology regurgitated to try and sell some more screens, now everyone who was ever going to buy a new HD TV has got one. It's got no role in cinema, let alone in the home and has just led to crap effects for the sake of them, that add absolutely nothing.

There is some way to go. But we've recently built some boards for the BBC that take full bandwidth signals from cameras / audio and push them down an IP route rather than the normal high bandwidth route. It won product of the show at the recent NAB broadcasting exhibition in Las Vegas. The BBC wanted to get them installed for the Olympics but they gave us no time to build them. But the BBC have done a lot of work on super HD.

[CocoPops]

Oh flower of sctotland...